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iMessage deliberately makes the text unpleasant to read. They could just use a green/blue badge to differentiate the underlying protocols, but instead they rend

iMessage deliberately makes the text unpleasant to read. They could just use a green/blue badge to differentiate the underlying protocols, but instead they render the non-iMessage texts on a background that makes them slightly annoying to read. How is annoying users and inducing a negative emotional response to messages from a group of people not abusive?

Invictus0 5y ago
I guess dang and ycombinator are abusing me for making me read your comment with light gray text color.
- cma 5y ago
  It would be like Apple paying off forum sites to do something like that, graying out Android users in any public discourse. Android phones are more popular in African American communities, so Apple is already doing segregation-like stuff with these hard to read text bubbles.
  - iqanq 5y ago
    That's the most convoluted reason to call someone racist I've heard of in a long time.
- GrantZvolsky 5y ago
  A better analogy would be HN greying comments that were posted from any device that wasn't manufactured by Apple.
martini333 5y ago
wow
xu_ituairo 5y ago
SMS messages were green for years before they introduced iMessage, so I doubt they chose that colour to be intentionally annoying or abusive.
- GrantZvolsky 5y ago
  The look was entirely different. Black on green IIRC. It's white on somewhat neon green now.
  - sharps1 5y ago
    If you turn on Increase Contrast in the accessibility features the green is darker and much nicer.
  - Lammy 5y ago
    > Black on green IIRC Yep, inherited from iChat way back in the Jagwire days: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/images/ichat.jpg https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/revie...
- izacus 5y ago
  With later iOS they changed the colour to much brighter green which violates even their own accessibility contrast rules.
- cma 5y ago
  They were black on green which is fine, white on green is hard to read, only white on yellow would be worse for the way our cone cells are distributed.
iqanq 5y ago

Invictus0 5y ago

I guess dang and ycombinator are abusing me for making me read your comment with light gray text color.

cma 5y ago
It would be like Apple paying off forum sites to do something like that, graying out Android users in any public discourse. Android phones are more popular in African American communities, so Apple is already doing segregation-like stuff with these hard to read text bubbles.
- iqanq 5y ago
  That's the most convoluted reason to call someone racist I've heard of in a long time.
GrantZvolsky 5y ago
A better analogy would be HN greying comments that were posted from any device that wasn't manufactured by Apple.

martini333 5y ago

wow

xu_ituairo 5y ago

SMS messages were green for years before they introduced iMessage, so I doubt they chose that colour to be intentionally annoying or abusive.

GrantZvolsky 5y ago
The look was entirely different. Black on green IIRC. It's white on somewhat neon green now.
- sharps1 5y ago
  If you turn on Increase Contrast in the accessibility features the green is darker and much nicer.
- Lammy 5y ago
  > Black on green IIRC Yep, inherited from iChat way back in the Jagwire days: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/images/ichat.jpg https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/revie...
izacus 5y ago
With later iOS they changed the colour to much brighter green which violates even their own accessibility contrast rules.
cma 5y ago
They were black on green which is fine, white on green is hard to read, only white on yellow would be worse for the way our cone cells are distributed.

iqanq 5y ago